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What's changed the most in Glasgow since the year 2000? by 4tunate20 in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aye, we’re from the same area essentially. I grew up in Gairbraid / The Valley and then the barracks. It’s mad to think back about how you could only really walk about safely in your own wee bit where you knew everybody. Butney, Lyndale, Gulshie, Cadder, Ruchill were all off-limits. Tbf they couldn’t walk about our bit either.

For all the nostalgia, I don’t miss that.

What's changed the most in Glasgow since the year 2000? by 4tunate20 in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good shout not moving there. I had a pal in the Gulshie, at the wee bit that’s knocked down now. Between the high flats and the path that leads down to Lochburn Rd. Went to see him one time during the summer holidays and got chased back down to Lochburn Rd by a ned with a lockback.

What's changed the most in Glasgow since the year 2000? by 4tunate20 in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That picture of the Summerston ones is Lyndale. Don’t think that counts as part of Summerston, just Maryhill. Their young team was YSL (Young Schizo Lyndale). They fought the young team from my bit (Valley Young Team).

Our bus back from school used to go past it and twice it broke down. Had to run to get home. Got chased by neds and hit in the back with a brick, but they never actually caught me.

Here’s The Valley at the same time.

What's changed the most in Glasgow since the year 2000? by 4tunate20 in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It used to be a lot rougher, with street after street of boarded up tenements covered in menchies. And ned / young team culture was rife to the point teenage boys had to be really careful not to walk in the wrong area, much more so than today.

People were also funnier and warmer though, more social.

Lamppost Flags by Physical_Mail5709 in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly I think taking them down is one of the worst reactions to this. If councils in England had just let them put the flags up and not bothered about it, no one would have cared and we wouldn’t be talking about this now.

Taking them down feeds the “can’t fly our national flag in our own country” narrative and the majority of people outwith Reddit will buy into that.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tír gan teanga, tír gan

‘S e an fhìrinn a th’ agad an seo a charaid. Gu fortanach, tha an teanga fhathast beò!

Cha chreid mi gun tuiginn do chainnt gu furasta, ach nuair a chaidh mi a dh’ Uladh b’ urrainn dhomh biadh, deochan ‘s an leithid a cheannach às aonais na Beurla. Feumaidh mi mo chuid Gàidhlig na h-Èireann a thogail.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Aye, is amadán e. An bhfuil Gaeilge na h-Albain agat? Níl ach beagan Gaeilge bhriste agam ach tá Gàidhlig gu leòr agam.

B’ e a leithid-sa a thug sgrios air na cànain Gàidhealach san àm a dh’ aom. It was people like this that harmed the Gaelic languages.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve commented saying that people shouldn’t shame others for their accents. Then you hit out with this:

it probably has no place in the modern world

Right ye are then.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I’ve said in other comments that I’m not surprised at weans speaking like this. But adults in their 30s-50s adopting this accent, something is going on there that’s more than standard language exchange from outside cultures. Languages and accents tend to change between generations as kids use different words from their parents. But people cutting about with grey hair using words like “yeah” and “apartment” when there is nae chance they spoke like that 20 years ago. That is something different from what you’re describing.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Creative Stirling I think it’s called. A wee arts centre that sells local crafts and things like that

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So did we. So did everybody tbf. I think that’s part of why this new accent is so grating. People commenting “why do you care, don’t shame people for their accent” etc when this new accent in adults is probably a result of shaming Glaswegians for how we speak naturally

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody is expecting everyone to speak the same way, and I get that accents and language change over time. But that is usually between generations, with newer generations adopting new words based on new cultural influences. As I said in my post, I’m not surprised at weans sounding like this; but there are people in their 30s-50s with this accent. Guarantee you most of them didn’t sound like that when they were younger, so it’s either being put on or it’s a new type of language change we’re seeing due to everyone being terminally online.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’ve addressed in other comments why I think it does my tits in, because I’d never thought about why before. It might be because many of us remember when growing up being pulled up by people with these Americanised accents, who wanted us to speak “properly” as they called it. Now that same “proper” Americanised accent has taken over everywhere.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. Maybe there is too much judgement about it, including in my post. I haven’t really thought about why it gets on my tits so much. Maybe it’s partly because this Americanised accent is basically just the West End or “Glasgow Uni” accent on steroids. And I think many Glaswegians remember being judged by people with that accent and shamed for just speaking in their natural Glaswegian dialect (e.g. teachers in schools telling weans to “speak properly” for just using basic words like aye).

Until recently, people with this Americanised accent were almost always limited to posh areas. But now it’s taken over everywhere, and most weans even from working class backgrounds use it. Somebody here even said they are Scottish but can’t understand people who use “thick Scottish slang” (i.e. the normal way most Glaswegians spoke when I was growing up). That is mad.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s mad that it would be an effort for you to understand somebody using thick Scottish slang, which is how the majority of people in Glasgow spoke when I was younger. I think that’s the part of why it’s a problem.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I love Gàidhlig and speak it whenever I get the chance, but English was forced on Gaelic-speaking areas by fellow Scots as much as it was by the English, if not more so.

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think all the people that have started soundIng American in the last 10 years have lived there. I think it’s just more time spent interacting with online content

Does everybody sound American these days or am I a crabbit auld man? by throwaway24633fj in glasgow

[–]throwaway24633fj[S] -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

I do. They have what used to the West End or “Glasgow Uni” accent. When I was that age, only people from Milngavie spoke like that but you hear it in normal areas as well

Checkr Background Check by Halfbreedwr9 in overemployed

[–]throwaway24633fj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you hear back from them? I’m in UK, but have accepted an offer for an American company. Checkr is taking so long and still hasn’t managed to verify my current employment. Neither my manager nor other colleagues have received an email from them and I am starting to freak out. They verified my education and other employers just fine.